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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"cultural control"”.
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Compatibility of biological and cultural control in dairy heifer group housing
The compatibility of biological and cultural fly control on dairies was examined in three ways. First, a review of the current literature concerning filth fly production and filth fly pupal parasitoids on dairies was conducted to asses where there was a lack of information. Second, a survey of …
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Aphid Transmission of Soybean Mosaic Virus: Some Potential Means of Cultural Control
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-14T07:04:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 8009055.pdf: 4374969 bytes, checksum: 0d34683fd0b0759e9441455e298edb36 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1979
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Characterization of the Mechanism of Resistance of a Johnsongrass (Sorghum halepense) Biotype to Selected Graminicides in Virginia and Response of Mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris) to Specific Herbicidal and Cultural Control Strategies
… counties throughout Virginia, 100% mugwort control was achieved with standard application rates of picloram at 4 months after treatment (MAT), and also greater than 70% mugwort control was achieved with the higher application rates of clopyralid, glyphosate, and dicamba at 4 MAT. However, …
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Ecology and management of wireworms (Coleoptera: Elateridae) in conventional and organic production systems
… crops. Thus, developing an effective alternative control approach is an urgent need. The overall aim of this research study was to evaluate alternative [to insecticides] tactics that could be used as components of effective IPM strategies against wireworms. In Chapter 1 we provide an overview of …
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Integrated pest management of the banana weevil, Cosmopolites sordidus (Germar), in South Africa
… mass trapping, elucidate the efficacy of cultural and chemical control methods and establish economic thresholds for the banana weevil on Cavendish bananas in South Africa. Pest status of the insect is variable around the world, and may be influenced by genetically distinct populations of …
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El hambre en el cine cubano del Período Especial
… hunger, this study offers a summary of the Cuban cultural manifestations of the last decades that have addressed the issue of hunger as well as a brief historical context that allows us to understand the development of this trope from 1960 to the present. Focused on the aforementioned films, this …
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Filmmaker, Lawyer, Indian Chief: The Negotiation of Identity in an Indigenous Film Festival
… 2009 theme of “Telling Our Stories” emphasized cultural control of representation and the transmission of traditional knowledge.</p> <p>In this thesis, I show that unlike ethnographic filmmakers, indigenous filmmakers have been able to critically engage issues of identity due to their personal …
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A discourse analysis of pro-anorexia webstie
… to empower themselves and resist socio - cultural control. Paying attention to the socio - culturally specific discursive context in which anorexia arises and the potential benefit of pro - anorexia websites for health professionals, it allows more effective therapeutic interventions for …
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Take-all in Wheat: PCR Identification of the Pathogen and the Interactions Amongst Potential Biological Control Agents
… effective combinations of bacteria as biological control agents. Detection was based on avenacinase-based primers and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) conditions specified by earlier research. PCR conditions were modified to effect detection. The annealing temperature was lowered from 68 to 62°C …
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Genome-wide association study of Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus resistance in a Nested Association Mapping population of winter wheat using Skim Exome Capture and Practical Haplotype Graph imputation
… and reduced kernel weight. While chemical and cultural control strategies offer limited effectiveness, genetic resistance remains the most sustainable approach. In this study, a genome-wide association study (GWAS) was conducted to identify loci associated with BYDV resistance in a Nested …
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Goss’s wilt and leaf blight of corn: chemical control, residue management and resistance
… hybrids. There are several ways that could help control the spread of Goss’s wilt, including chemical control, residue management and the use of resistant hybrids. These three areas of control were the subject of this research. While there are resistant hybrids for some regions, the availability …
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Narrativising Dispossessed Histories
… and mechanisms of the retrospective mining of cultural absences, voids, silences, and blind spots where the condemned artefact or cultural object was forcefully and intentionally disappeared by authoritarian, dominant, hegemonic cultural control systems. Each project in this commentary is a …
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A City of Angels: Philanthropy and the Public Good in the Fragmented Metropolis
… of power that disseminates economic, social, and cultural control. Instead of upholding the values of the elite through reproducing a system that serves to remedy the exploitation of the relations of production, I reimagine philanthropy’s methodologies as a means to include the citizenry more …
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Integrated Approach to Understanding Tomato Sour Rot and Improving Disease Management on the Eastern Shore of Virginia
… production regions. Fungicide products and cultural control methods are tested for efficacy utilizing a traditional wounding technique that does not properly reflect natural sour rot infections. A new inoculation technique was optimized for G. candidum using negative pressure to infiltrate …
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Artists Under Reform: An Analysis of Professional Chinese Guohua Painters' Relation to the State in the Post-Mao Era
… that is more instrumental to promote China’s cultural heritage and national soft power. It argues that the sustainability of such a partnership has been reinforced through a conscious differentiation between categories of art -- elite and non-elite, official and non-official, high and popular, …
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Postemergence control of annual bluegrass with mesotrione in Kentucky bluegrass
… of from an established area by a turf manager. Cultural control options rely on increasing the competiveness and health of the desired turf species, such as Kentucky bluegrass, but the management demands for turf areas such as golf course fairways, tees, and greens, favor annual bluegrass. Under …
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Macroom: pastimes (non-sport) and community, after 1900; a history of seven pastimes in a small country Cork town
… century and its ownership has marked political control of the area. East of Macroom, on its Cork-city side, the land is generally good and fertile; to the west it is rockier and poorer. Proximity to Cork and land-quality were reasons for English influence being stronger east rather than west …
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Integrated pest management of squash bug, Anasa tristis, for conventional and organic cucurbit systems in Virginia
… for future research in squash bug biological control.
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The effect of a cabbage-carrot intercropping system on the incidence of cabbage pests
… important cabbage pests in South Africa. Pest control in cabbage is still heavily reliant on use of insecticides even though insecticide application usually result in increased pest status of P. xylostella. Use of integrated pest management (IPM) strategies may yet prove invaluable as a means …
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